New coverage of Gender Role Norms and Gender Stereotypes
Updated and rewritten coverage of Contextual Explanations
Chapter 9
Updated and rewrote coverage of Motor Development
New coverage of Childhood Injuries
Updated coverage of Obesity
Updated coverage of Classification
Updated and revised organization of Culture and Concrete Operational Reasoning
Central Executive Function updated and replaced with new coverage of Working Memory and Executive Function in Children
Updated coverage of Memory Strategies
Updated coverage of Intelligence Tests to include the WISC-V
Updated coverage of Individual and Group Differences in IQ
New coverage of Contextual Influences on IQ
Updated coverage of Multiple Intelligences
Revised and streamlined coverage of Moral Reasoning: Piaget’s Perspective
Updated and rewrote Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Reasoning, and retitled as Children’s Conceptions of Justice: Kohlberg’s Cognitive-Developmental Perspective
Updated and revised coverage of Distributive Justice Reasoning and Distinguishing Moral and Conventional Rules
Updated Language Development and revised Vocabulary
Updated and reorganized coverage of Reading and Mathematics
Updated coverage of Transition to First Grade
Updated Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development: Grade Retention and Social Promotion and retitled Applying Developmental Science: Grade Retention and Social Promotion
New coverage of Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Updated and streamlined coverage of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 10
Updated and reorganized coverage of Self-Concept
Updated and expanded coverage of Self-Esteem to include age differences and contextual and cultural influences
New coverage of Achievement Motivation and Contextual Influences on Achievement Attributions and Motivation
Updated and reorganized coverage of Friendship
Updated coverage of Popularity and Peer Rejection
Updated and reorganized Bullying, including Children Who Bully (retitled), Victims of Bullying (retitled), and Intervening in Bullying
Updated Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development: Antibullying Legislation and retitled as Applying Developmental Science: Antibullying Legislation
Updated and streamlined coverage of Parent–Child Relationships and Siblings
Updated coverage of Cultural Influences on Development: China’s One-Child Policy
Updated and streamlined coverage of Same-Sex Parented Families, Single-Parent Families, and Cohabiting Families
Updated and retitled as Divorce and Divorcing Families
Updated coverage of Stepfamilies and retitled as Blended Famlies
Updated and rewrote coverage of Common Fears and Anxiety, retitling it as School Refusal
Updated and reorganized Child Sexual Abuse
Updated and rewrote coverage of Resilience
Updated and rewrote Lives in Context: Exposure to War and Terrorism and Children’s Development
Chapter 11
Updated and integrated Popular Views of Adolescence: Storm and Stress into Is Adolescence a Period of Storm and Stress?
Updated and streamlined coverage of Adolescent Moodiness
Updated and reorganized coverage of Puberty into Changes in Body Size and Shape, Sexual Characteristics, and Sexual Maturation
New Cultural Influences on Development: Menarche Rituals of the !Xoo
Updated coverage of Psychosocial Effects of Early and Late Puberty and revised to Psychosocial Effects of Pubertal Timing, expanding coverage of context
Updated Puberty and Sleep Patterns
Updated and rewrote Nutrition and Development
Updated Brain Development in Adolescence and expanded to include the dual-systems model
Updated Socioemotional Perception
Updated and rewrote Risk Taking
Updated Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory and Information Processing Theory
Updated and streamlined Implications of Adolescent Thinking
Updated, revised, and retitled Ethical and Policy Applications of Lifespan Development: Legal Implications of Adolescent Decision Making as Applying Developmental Science: Legal Implications of Adolescent Decision Making
New Lives in Context: Volunteer Work and Social Responsibility
Updated coverage of School Transitions
Updated and expanded Applying Developmental Science: School Dropout and integrated it into the text
Chapter 12
Updated and streamlined coverage of Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
Updated and rewrote coverage of Identity, including Identity Statuses, Influences on Identity Development, Outcomes Associated With Identity Development, and Ethnic Identity
New Cultural Influences on Development: Cultural Views of Gender
Updated and rewrote coverage of Parent–Adolescent Conflict
Updated and differentiated Parenting Style and Monitoring into separate sections, Parenting and Parental Monitoring
Updated coverage of Friendships and Cliques and Crowds
Updated and reorganized coverage of Peer Conformity
Updated and rewrote coverage of Dating
Updated Sexuality and Influences on Sexual Activity, combined into one section, Sexuality, and expanded to include topics such as ethnic differences, timing, sexting, and risk factors
Updated and rewrote coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents
Updated and streamlined coverage of Contraceptive Use, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Adolescent Pregnancy
Updated and reorganized Depression and Suicide, Eating Disorders, and Alcohol and Substance Use
Chapter 13
New coverage of Emerging Adulthood: Transition to Adulthood
New Cultural Influences on Development: Emerging Adulthood and Culture
Updated and reorganized Physical Development, retitling it as Physical Changes
New Brain and Biological